Am I really cut out for blogging??
So it has come to my attention that maybe I need to tighten up my Facebook privacy settings a little bit. I know, I know this is probably something I should have done loooong ago, and I have in the past spent some time thinking about it. But in all honesty I do kind of like being Facebook-findable. I love people, meeting them, getting to know them and I guess in a way … collecting them. Not in a sinister way, but in a thank you for stopping by and making an impression on my life kind of way and so why not continue being in each others lives in an easily accessible and socially acceptable format aka Bookface. I find that there is nothing more disappointing than when you meet someone interesting, plan to connect via FB only to find that they are have cracked the privacy settings right up and are impossible to find. In those situations I genuinely feel a sense of loss. A lost opportunity to purse a friendship or a business relationship, a lost photo in which I will never be tagged in, the loss of a sofa to stay on in some far off land …. You get the picture. Of course these losses work both ways … my sofa (well if I had one) and friendship is always open to those I meet…
So what do my Facebook privacy settings have to do with my blog? Well the way diaryofabritishcowgirl is set up is pretty basic. I haven’t paid for any fancy webpage space and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t show up in any search engines. Yes it exists out in the world of cyber space, but only in a very small, personal pocket of the world wide web. This is not by accident (or because I am too tight to pay for a webpage) rather I set it up like this so that my random ramblings could only be accessed by my beloved friends, family and facebook people* who happen to be an audience I am comfortable sharing things with. Fortunately when growing up I never had the experience of having my mother read my diary. (or if she did she kept it pretty quiet; which in hindsight is probably because my teenage diary was just full of horrific love poems about a certain boy who shall go by the acronym TK) So finding out that being Facebook-findable has left my blog WIDE open to people who exist outside of my snuggle blanket acquaintances has left me feeling a wee bit exposed, and unsure about how I wish to continue writing on this blog.
I guess I’ve been naive to think that this would not happen, and maybe I am just having a bit of a blog-isis (blog-crisis) … who knows but for now I will sign out, wish you all a Happy New Year and remind you to check out my friend Jess’ fab blog; http://chickinavan.com/
*I don’t know why I separated out the FB people here, if you are on my FB then in my books you count as a friend.
So it has come to my attention that maybe I need to tighten up my Facebook privacy settings a little bit. I know, I know this is probably something I should have done loooong ago, and I have in the past spent some time thinking about it. But in all honesty I do kind of like being Facebook-findable. I love people, meeting them, getting to know them and I guess in a way … collecting them. Not in a sinister way, but in a thank you for stopping by and making an impression on my life kind of way and so why not continue being in each others lives in an easily accessible and socially acceptable format aka Bookface. I find that there is nothing more disappointing than when you meet someone interesting, plan to connect via FB only to find that they are have cracked the privacy settings right up and are impossible to find. In those situations I genuinely feel a sense of loss. A lost opportunity to purse a friendship or a business relationship, a lost photo in which I will never be tagged in, the loss of a sofa to stay on in some far off land …. You get the picture. Of course these losses work both ways … my sofa (well if I had one) and friendship is always open to those I meet…
So what do my Facebook privacy settings have to do with my blog? Well the way diaryofabritishcowgirl is set up is pretty basic. I haven’t paid for any fancy webpage space and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t show up in any search engines. Yes it exists out in the world of cyber space, but only in a very small, personal pocket of the world wide web. This is not by accident (or because I am too tight to pay for a webpage) rather I set it up like this so that my random ramblings could only be accessed by my beloved friends, family and facebook people* who happen to be an audience I am comfortable sharing things with. Fortunately when growing up I never had the experience of having my mother read my diary. (or if she did she kept it pretty quiet; which in hindsight is probably because my teenage diary was just full of horrific love poems about a certain boy who shall go by the acronym TK) So finding out that being Facebook-findable has left my blog WIDE open to people who exist outside of my snuggle blanket acquaintances has left me feeling a wee bit exposed, and unsure about how I wish to continue writing on this blog.
I guess I’ve been naive to think that this would not happen, and maybe I am just having a bit of a blog-isis (blog-crisis) … who knows but for now I will sign out, wish you all a Happy New Year and remind you to check out my friend Jess’ fab blog; http://chickinavan.com/
*I don’t know why I separated out the FB people here, if you are on my FB then in my books you count as a friend.
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